Wednesday, December 3

The General and My Grandson

General Jim Jones, USMC (Ret), former Allied Commander, Europe, and Commander of the United States European Command, will serve as President Barack Obama's National Security Advisor.

We were invited to a reception at the Marine Barracks in Washington, DC in 2002, and we took our grandson with us. He was 8 years old. Little did we know that the man behind him, who was then Commandant of the Marine Corp, would someday be working closely with our President in the White House.